Bio
I'm a 21-year-old Christian singer/songwriter with a real passion for music and expressing both my heart for God and His heart for us, through music. It's only in the past 6 or so years, that I’ve discovered just how effective music can be in connecting with Him on a really deep level. My hope is that my music will inspire its listeners to venture deeper into worship, and to fall more deeply in love with God.
I became interested in music at a fairly young age and I remember my first few attempts at writing songs during my early teens. My natural love for music and my desire to worship God just seemed to go hand in hand – I used to listen very intently to Christian radio to pick out the most exciting new Christian music on the scene – I just couldn’t get enough of it!
The first song I ever unleashed on the public was called ‘There is a Call’, and I remember using it as part of a time of worship at an event at church – people seemed to like it and at that point I think my hopes and ambitions to expand my songwriting started to grow at an even steadier rate. It was the result of an unbelievably random (or maybe not so random!) series of events that ended with me sitting in the home studio of the friend of a friend one January Saturday, attempting my first recording endeavour... a five-track album called ‘The Weight of Your Glory’. It was really intended as an experiment to begin with – to get my stuff down on disc and see what happened. I had no idea what would happen in the few years to follow – all I knew was that I felt like I’d come home when I was worshipping God and this spurred me on all the more.
In the time since then things have continued to develop slowly but surely. I ended up at University in Central London studying for a degree in music, and that in itself has opened all sorts of doors for me. I hadn’t always intended to go to university, but God knew where He wanted me and I can honestly say that both musically and spiritually these have been the best and most exhilarating few years of my life so far! During my first year I was given the opportunity to take part in a singer-songwriter competition in a small London venue (the pub the room was underneath was called The Slaughtered Lamb – how fitting!), and I couldn’t have asked for a stranger experience... There I found myself in the very secular basement/acoustic lounge of a popular London pub full of non Christian music-enthusiasts, all eyes on me as I sang my heart out to God with themes of worship, salvation and devotion to God. The stark contrast between the things I was singing about and the worldly atmosphere of the venue was somewhat scary, as they don’t tend to naturally go hand in hand (!), and especially as this was my first real experience of performing publicly. But as it happened God really showed up that night and touched people, and I know it was all worth it. I even won the audience prize!
At the end of 2007 I found myself feeling incredibly frustrated at my lack of opportunities to perform – I had all these ideas and nowhere to let them out. Again randomly, I happened to be chatting to a good friend and mentioned to him my frustrations. He immediately offered me the use of his equipment and producing know-how, and thus began an exciting 4 months of musical creativity! The end result was my second project, ‘More To This World’, which I think is fairly different in style to The Weight of Your Glory – perhaps showing a wider range of styles and themes.
Along with performance opportunities, my time at Uni has also allowed me the opportunity to lead worship at the Christian union. It has been an interesting journey so far, and I know God has a lot more He wants to do there this year! I’ve also recently recorded a song that I wrote as a wedding present for some friends at church.
So what next? Well I’m continuing to develop my songwriting, and have a lot more songs in the pipeline! Watch this space for any new stuff coming your way...!
